Deborah RANEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VINSON GUARD SERVICE, INC., Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that an employee functioning as \a facilitator or conduit only\ is not a true decisionmaker
• holding that a plaintiff’s assertions, based upon no more than unsupported hunches, were not sufficient to defeat defendant’s motion for summary judgment
• upholding a grant of summary judgment where a company vice-president without knowledge of the protected expression denied that a regional branch manager with such knowledge terminated the plaintiff, and where the plaintiff failed to establish the branch manager’s authority
• “Summary judgment cannot be avoided . . . based on hunches unsupported with significant probative evidence.”
• “Summary judgment cannot be avoided . . . based on hunches unsupported with significant probative evidence.”
• “It is not enough for the plaintiff to show that someone in the organization knew of the protected expression ... ”

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